One of my male ancestors left his wife and 3 small children one morning, right after his wife had given birth, to find a nurse to come help her (probably a midwife or wet nurse). He returned to find his entire family murdered by Indians, as well as the neighbors whose home had also been set fire. He did eventually remarry and that is how my line came to be. My family has been here since the 1600's and we have books and diaries written by members that tell many stories of their hardships. It really brings history alive when you learn about your own families' past.
Thanks to this site and others like it, It becomes clear that pre-contact, the norm among N American natives was to hunt, and while hunting, keep an eye out for any others, follow them to their villages, and then plan sneak attacks, murdering all adult males and boys over the age of puberty as well as all infants and toddlers (sometimes allowing abducted women to carry their babies until they cried, then murdering the children, often by holding them by the ankles and smashing their brains out on rocks or trees). Sometimes males would be taken captive and brought back to the native village, where torture was a form of entertainment. Since romantic love, courting and marriage didn't occur among natives, it is pretty obvious that rape was the norm and native women were treated like slaves and pack animals, so THEY were "allowed" to perform the most painful and drawn out tortures on captives. Captive Women and girls were raped repeatedly, and kept around to perform menial tasks. Of course, any tools and weapons were part of the "booty". When Europeans settlers moved west from populated areas, they were in for the same treatment. The only difference was that natives would first approach openly, feigning friendship and welcome while they conducted reconnaissance and would return in numbers to murder, rape and steal. It was much more lucrative to attack settler families, as there were fewer men to fight back, and booty included guns, metal tools, pots and pans, livestock and horses. Captive women could be ransomed. These facts are being scrubbed from history, and I am very grateful that someone has the courage to inform us of the actual "unworthy" history.
So sad! I don't understand the senseless killing of women and children - on either side. Those written diaries are precious indeed. I cannot, and don't especially want, to imagine the hardships our ancestors went through when they first got here.
Astonishing story ! So glad that Sarah survived & prospered into adulthood with eight children and lived well beyond the years that her dad & mom were robbed of. 💟
Both American settlers & soldiers and Native American tribes committed atrocities in the name of their own interests. Anyone who says the Native Americans are peaceful innocent victims or that American soldiers and settlers were righteous & honorable have a very childish view of not just American History but human nature.
@IbnRushd-mv3fp Ha! Like a white guy would be allowed to say anything nice about other white people without getting slapped just for saying it! That's hilarious!
One was the colonizer aggressor/attacker, and the other one was defending against invasion. Try to spin it however you’d like but there was and is a big difference.
@@georgeatwood4550oh for heaven’s sake. What’s wrong with you! Are you anti-immigrant? These were people merely seeking a better life. Some of them were welcomed by natives and some were not. They merely did what immigrants all over the world do, transfer their culture and sometimes that culture is dominant. I just can’t stand anti immigrant racism like yours. Go away.
My grandmothers family were one of the first to settle in Ellsworth County. Two of their female ancestors were once snatched by Cheyenne near the Saline River. I believe the story goes that they were rescued by soldiers from Ft Harker and returned battered but alive and whole.
What? What a weird comment. They were 2 teenage girls doing chores on the farm, which was near the river. Obviously desirable because the redskins kidnapped them both, and Im sure took liberties with both young ladies. They were rescued FORCIBLY by US Army cavalry soldiers.
@@LordoftheOzarks Sorry, english not a first language. I was asking: After they were saved did they got married and had families or were undesirable by the settler men after being kidnapped?
Goddamned right brother!! One more thing, Isnt getting phucked 4 ways to Sunday by a train of feathered savages referred to as being ''ravaged'' not ravished? Let me know, thanks RC
AND WHAT DID THAT ACCOMPLISH??? THEY ARE STILL SAVAGES AND ON RESERVATIONS !! AND NOT NICE AND NOT CIVILIZED !! BEEN ON RESEVATIONS?? GO SEE THEM !! THEN GET AN OPINION BTW, THEY WILL NOT LIKE ANYONE WHITE OR NOT THEM ARE TREATED RUDELY AND THE TRIBES STILL DISPISE EACH OTHER AND NOT ENGINEERS !!!!
My ancestor, Benjamin Braine--son of poor Irish immigrants--, was held captive in the 18th century for several years after his family, and the neighboring family, were horribly butchered. One of the children, Benjamin's brother, was actually made to stand on a stump, while axes were thrown at him by the assailants who disliked his red hair. Another little brother was sold to another tribe and died from the brutal conditions of his slavery. Benjamin was adopted by Native parents that had just lost their same-aged son. He was given the name "Go-by-Moonshine," as a result of him being brought into the tribe by river during the bright moonlight. Adoption wasn't the fairytale that I think Hollywood tries to make it into though, and when Benjamin grew sick at one point, his adopted father took him into the woods, intent to kill him if he didn't seem strong enough to his standards. There was a particular Native that was reportedly unkind to Benjamin throughout all his years with the tribe. At one point, he taunted Benjamin that he was the one that had killed Benjamin's mother. Benjamin killed him and fled. He escaped and, by all known accounts, never went back. Ironically, his mother and a few people had managed to barricade themselves within a house during the massacre. She survived but moved far away. It's unknown if they ever saw each other again or even knew that the other had survived. Where the trend to romanticize Native captivity of Whites, or White captivity of Natives, comes from I will never know. These are actions of war; of slavery--not romantic at all.
I don't comment often but I wanted to thank you for having the courage to reveal the truth and, of course, presenting it without putting an opinion on it. So many of us, myself included, had been given a whitewashed one sided view of what actually occurred. The U.S. was always depicted as villains. It was when I was researching for my exhibit work that I too found contemporary accounts which opened my eyes. There is never any excuse for brutality against the most vulnerable. These actions have their consequences and considering those actions, the restraint practiced by our government was laudable. Thanks again and best wishes! - T.R.
What you described is history being rewritten by the losers, because the winners felt bad about winning. I am so grateful for channels like Unworthy History and Dates and Dead Guys.
Party #2 tricks party #1 and takes there land, and stops there culture. Party #1 retaliates and party #2 is shocked because they thought party #1 was peaceful and weak. So party #2 wipes out 95% of party #1. How is this laudable? Its genocide. The federal government has been making reparations and allowing concessions to tribes for quite some time now because hindsite being what it is, WE were the VILLIANS!
I am 69% settler and 29% Native American. My mother's side - European Heritage came in the mid 1600s. My father's side have always been here. We are watching corporate greediness destroy the air, the soil and the water in North America. Many of the creeks are completely unable to be accessed by fish and wildlife. Corporations Never clean up the toxic messes they leave and it is a shame and an outrage.
You make a very valid point. We have no respect for nature and its gifts. I understand your ancestors thanked game for their life, that they might live. We have much to learn.
In his book The Golden Bough, Sir James Frazier provides an eye-witness account of the Pawnee's annual springtime human sacrifice that occurred in April of 1837. After the magic murder, the Pawnee chief ate the victim's heart and the rest of the tribe ate her body.
Yup, every one of my ancestors was like “hey Aztecs were badass and powerful warriors, blah blah blah, brown pride, blah blah” but conveniently left out the part about the live sacrifices, rape, plunder, war and enslavement of other warrior tribes and people.
One side of my family was founded by a 10 yo Swedish orphan. We know nothing about the man who founded my mother's side. Family lore says he was a Welshman impressed into the British Navy. We have no records of the women. There were many, many Europeans who did not come to North America by choice.
And many hundreds of thousands came from Ireland as slaves fleeing famine. The Irish slave trade was enormous down south. They had it every bit as bad as Blacks.
G@@lilyw.719 The Irish were never bought and sold on the auction block. They were not slaves,but indentured servants.Their service did not follow the status of their mothers,as it did with Black slaves. They finished their term of service and went on their way.Blacks were enslaved until death or they were set free with legal documents.
History is full of one nation slaughtering and obliterating the weaker ones that came before them. That goes for the Native American tribes amongst themselves. Occasionally the stronger nations so savaged their predecessors to the point of complete destruction. This was the way of the world since time immemorial. It is only in this country ( and Australia) that serious efforts are being made to recognize the plight of the native Americans . But that’s a reflection of the kindness and civility unique to the American people.
Not unique to Americans, the British were pretty mild colonists. Look at the antics in the New Zealand parliament by Maoris who engaged in savage tribal wars, cannibalism and a culture of obsessive revenge killing before Christians arrived.
@yesm2302 Very good observation. I believe we have reached to the point that recriminations are not useful. Instead we must return to recognizing and praising what these people went through to tame a wild land and build a nation.
@@justjosie0107I can't pretend to feel the pain and rage that might still linger from those whose ancestors were "tamed" to build this nation. There's always two sides to a story. History can be sad or glorious. The conquest had to happen. But it doesn't mean everyone is gonna like the retelling of it...
This history was not that long ago. My grandfather was ready to start school when Custer attacked on the Washita. My father, the 4th of 5 children, was born in 1899. Then me on the last day of 1941.
Yep I was ashamed of MSNBC Lady host who was upset over florida rejecting history book because it did not include the Indian atrocities. I'm radical moderate but I vote Dem only. Liberal all upset how Repug areas making Slavery not covered much and not mentioning how bad it was. But liberals do history editing themselves. Liberal's upset back when I young for history not covering Trail of Tears. Back When Western Media was huge in books, Movie and then TV they showed the Indians as evil and the settlers were pure and nice. So the movement to make it clear the Whites did lots of atrocities was correct. Small minority of Indians and much larger group of whites on left came up with the Naitives were pure and peaceful before whites came and only whites evil. Vast majority of Indians, they prefer that term by massive 70 percent plus not involved and they probably upset how this Indian were peaceful disrespected their great fighters and emasculated them. Thus Poll after poll of Indians showed over 70 percent support for Redskin name probably for same reason people of Norse descent like name Viking as both groups were savage warriors who raped, pillaged and burned and took slaves. People tend to like savage outlaw names for teams it's not an insult it's praise. On NPR heard first time about the Black Cherokee about a year ago from Indian Activist stating these Black Cherokee descendants of Slaves who suffered the most on the Trail of Tears something that I never heard of before. The Black Cherokee had recently finally achieved full tribe membership. The truth is both sides in this savages the whites being civilized a lie. Similar the Japanise Internment was in part cause by three Japanese citizen and resident holding other Native Hawaian US citizens at gun point to help a Japanise pilot burn his plane and burn his paperwork. Pilot who landed his damaged plane on the small Natives mostly only Island off of Kawaii after the Attack on Pearl Harbor. So first chance to betray the US Japanise betrayed US. I still think racism was part of the Intern choice especially considering how well many Japanese American fought and died for the US in Europe.
You must not have gone to a very good school. Our schools covered the atrocities committed by both sides. Heck, if you watched any old westerns they talked about the pillaging and killing by the Native Americans as well as the lies and cruel treatment by the military and government
@@johningle1 I've given up on celebrating "holidays" because holiday means "holy day" in old English. Holidays are not holy. Even birthdays are idolatrous. They were first practiced by Pharaoh's in Egypt to celebrate their "God" status. Even if a person isn't pretending to be God, making an entire day about oneself is idolatry. Birthday cakes, candles and gift giving are also historical occult or pagan practices. My child also doesn't want birthday parties anymore either. Thanksgiving could be redeemable even though it isn't specifically holy. Maybe it could be a celebration about being thankful to God.
The Lewis and Clark are probably the best. The accounts from furtraders are excellent as well. When there is active conflict, the facts get screwed partly because people say and do things during war that they do not normally do. Read what was written by the axis about the allies during ww2 and vise verse, it was not always the most accurate.
@solanjedere true and the settlers didn't always realize that they were trespassing and endangering the natives. There was a lot of misinformation/miscommunication as well. For example, the Osage tribe got blamed for the benders massacring settlers, and the army would sometimes attack innocent villages because they could not tell the native tribes apart. They all looked the same and lived in teepees.
@@solanjedereThere is no such thing as natives. They were nomads who only were in that territory for a few hundred years and they were only there because they genocided the previous occupants.
@@uberkraeger that's quite funny, there are no records in history about it except in the revisional white (not serious) narrative that was created to cover its crimes. So tell, where are they now, the ones u called nomads, why do they pratically disappeared? Oh yes, they just moved... to the cemetery. LOL
Sir James Frazier describes how the Pawnees sacrificed a fourteen or fifteen year-old Sioux girl by roasting her alive on a spit and then shooting her to death with arrows. (The Golden Bough, page 501, Simon and Schuster)
The Boobles request to eat (a Comanche woman of the Comanche who played a lute to stir others in a battle) but the Spaniards deny the request;..however,..having captured a young male Comanche they offer him in sacrifice na costume secretly (1665, Spanish Roots of America, by Bp David Arias,1992,p.175). Paul Ragueneau, S.J.., Shadows of Huronia,AD 1652(in French),,2003: details how the Iroquois slaughered about 10 000 Hurons
I highly recommend watching Apocalypto by Mel Gibson to understand how the natives treated each other. Also, read books on the natives before the white men came. Competing tribes regularly raided, murdered and raped each other. It was the norm. Now, I do not condone but I do understand that these atrocities are related to the HUMAN DARK SIDE!
😂😂😂😂😂😂 because Mel Gibson is such a completely unbiased "historian". Yeah some bands were very brutal and warlike, some weren't. Comparing all Natives to the Comanche would be like calling all English men Jack the Ripper. grow up and throw away your prejudices that are informed by your cultural and historical illiteracy. This MF really just cited a Mel Gibson movie as a factual historical documentary 😂😂😂
The Mel Gibson movie is a diffrernt group of natives who had kings and fought for territories in the South now latin america, not of the horse riding and buffalo hunting tribes of north america or US
The 'Little house on the prairie' author's family migrated from western Wisconsin to Nebraska during this time. She writes of their fear of the Indian trouble in Nebraska being partly the reason they eventually moved to Western Minnesota where her stories are set.
I love those books. There's a chapter in one of the books where just her and ma were at home. Two NA men walked in and demanded something to eat. Ma was terrified but kept her cool and prepared food for them. The 2 men sat on the floor saying nothing, ate the food and left.
Wasn’t that Kansas Territory west of Independence? Along the Verdigris river? Then they moved back to western Wisconsin, then onto Minnesota. Reading deep into the backstory, much of the Little House series was fictionalized, re-arranged, and many characters were composites of several characters. I so loved those books as a child and was sorely disappointed to learn how inaccurate they were, historically, just to tell a better tale. Laura and her daughter reworked her diaries quite a bit. The Little House in the Big Woods and LH on the Prairie were before Laura was old enough to remember all those details. Finding out all that made my heart sad. It’s best just to read the books with a childlike belief that it all happened as it is written. And don’t let your children read the 9th and 10th books. It ruins the idyllic experience.
@Zaphod771 Like you would "know" and then just meekly submit almost immediately ? Like if the whole Chinese or Russian Army got behind all of the Native Americans and the Chinese or Russian military sponsored NAs taking back their land and sending non natives currently living there to go live in some concentration camp with almost no rights...you'd take that calmly . You'd accept that and just get to work doing a good job for the government after they slaughtered your whole family. You'd just say, "Well you won fair and square. Let's shake hands and be friends and never mention this again." Wow. If you ever suffer any serious adversity in your life I'm sure you'll qualify for becoming a modern saint. All of your friends and family must see you as a true spiritual leader. I look forward to your story .
Close. Apaches' of the time were second only to Comanches. I remember a half-white, half-commanche young woman in my youth who was drop-dead gorgeous. But she had mommy issues because her mother had also had a gorgeous,, blond younger daughter too. So she acted out. Not marriage material due to her destructive behavior.
Unfortunately most humans are not "peaceful". We are descended from Chimpanzees and even Chimpanzees have gang wars and such. We don't control that animal within.
After killing about ten million Indians ( no one counted the rapes) the civilized folks aborted another thirty million of their own - thank god for civilization
I'm a standard-issue white American, but even I know that statement is inaccurate and a gross exaggeration. Some tribes were nomads, some were hunter-gatherers. Other tribes lived in settlements and practiced agriculture. Tribes formed and dissolved alliances, had allies and enemies, and settled disputes over territory and resources with warfare. There are interesting parallels with ongoing tribal conflicts between the various nations of Europe. Inasmuch as everyone, including the Indians, migrated to the Americas, Europeans can be viewed as just another tribe who arrived very late. What the Indians lacked was cultural unity and European technology.
Why…The story of Sarah and Anna CAN’T be true. I know because they made a movie of the great LOVE story. (Stolen Women, Captured Hearts) So glad people are wise to all the false narratives we have been fed. (If unclear, my comment is sarcastic.)
Thank you. My daughter was taught the false narrative in high school in the 1990s. And the TV series, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, perpetuated it. They made Black Kettle out to be a sweet, peace-loving man who did no wrong ever. Now we know the truth.
The atrocities by the native Americans fighting with the French in colonial times were incredibly bloodthirsty. Whenever the English colonials had to surrender in battles, the French could not control their Indian combatants who would fall on and brutally murder the unarmed men, women & children.
The natives committed atrocities right from the start, the Lost Colony of N.C.'s coast 120 people disappeared in a few years. The White man didn't invent racism.
There were many tribes in North Carolina, not all of whom particularly liked each other. It's almost a certainty that the surviving members of the Lost Colony in Roanoke went native. The simply went to live with their friends rather than wait to be murdered by their enemies.
@jamesseaman2950 Murdered? The colonists, were gentlemen and soldiers, they didn't know how yo feed themselves....the only reason they would be "murdered" was because they kept raiding the natives for food, taking hostages, stealing from them and digging up their dead to eat them. Its more likely they chose to live with the natives rather than starve.
I want to thank you for reporting the written accounts of what was happening. We have an entire generation of school teachers that have never read this side of Plains Indian culture. This is the white settlers' account of what happened, but I believe it's all accurate. Why were the Indians were so barbaric? I think it is because ALL they (Indians) knew was hunting game and stealing from other tribes. White people were just another tribe to steal from. They did not know how to farm and needed vast land ranges to sustain their numbers, but the white people were taking over more land. We must see that this was the only way it could turn out. The tribes could not adapt without killing, raping, and enslaving other people. They didn't know how, and there was not enough time to learn a new life.
Thanks for the educational video.in Europe is fals public opinion about american indians that they ware nobels and angels and always victims of European settlers
"Ravished"; to fill someone with joy, pleasure or happiness. I get that it can also mean "to whisk away" but in this context? The word youre looking for is "Ravaged".
“Ravish” is an older word meaning “to seize and carry off by force”. “Ravage” means when destruction is spread over a wide area by war or an another disastrous event.
I love how people, especially those in academia have romanticized Native Americans; they’re treated as though they were these defenseless tribes who smoked pipes and danced by open fires. They were ruthless killers who had been fighting other tribes long before Europeans settled in North America. They pillaged and plundered like it was a recreational activity; they kidnapped and killed men, women, and children. They massacred tens of thousands of European settlers and wouldn’t have stopped until every one was killed out of existence. Eventually European settlers began taking steps to defend themselves and that’s when the tide turned but don’t ever let anyone tell you otherwise. Native Americans weren’t peace loving people, they were exactly how the people of those times described them as when they called them savages.
Gotta love some if the Indian names - its like what we would call each other if we just dngaff - I used to call a friend BigHead - he had a size 8 hat and his dome was gigantic sometimes we called him headquarters or Domepiece
My grandfather was born in 1865 in Georgia. His father had fought in the Civil War for the Confederacy. After the Civil War my great grandfather moved his family to Louisiana when my grandfather was a boy. Once he was grown, my grandfather built a large house in 1900 in western Louisiana and lived and farmed on 180 acres of land until his death in 1948. My grandfather and grandmother had 10 children with my father being their last child. My grandmother's father has also fought in the Civil War for a Louisiana regiment.
It's impressive that your grandfather was born in 1865! My grandfather was born in 1921 and me in 1978. May I ask when your father (the 10th child, right? ) was born? And you?
@@someone3187 My dad was born in 1914 and I was born in 1942. My dad was 29 with a wife and 3 kids so he thought he was safe from the draft in WW2. The US had a manpower crunch after D-Day so he was drafted in 1944, was wounded in Belgium, hospitalized in England, returned to his unit in Germany but never fired his M-1 in combat. All he wanted was to go home to his family!
The only reason you can't call it a genocide is because they were given the choice, fight on and be annihilated or surrender and live. You don't get to surrender in a genocide.
That’s a very naive out look of the over all picture . First off the intent of Europeans was never to genocide them that’s a false narrative . The “ native Americans “ routinely committed genocide against other races and tribes . The civilization of Chaco Canyon was utterly wiped out by native Americans . A killing field in which 100,000 skeletons were found riddled with arrow heads ( this was the last of a particular tribe that was surrounded) was unearthed in eastern Kansas . Another Native American killing field ( genocide) was found and unearthed near Ft. Ancient in S .Ohio . They stopped counting the skeletons at 30,000. Chief Cornstalk a Shawnee Chief pointed out to whites of his time of a site near the falls of the Ohio river the remaining bones of a race of people his ancestors eliminated . When the Iraquoi Indians got guns they went on an attempted genocide of the Shawnee speaking peoples their ancestral enemies . These are just the ones that have slipped out into public knowledge. State University departments tend to cover up this information as they want to push the innocent noble savage - all - white people - are - evil narrative , this because many are Marxists and want to destabilize America by causing race devisions and male /female disunity .
Is because there are more now than ever before. Relocating people, however wrong it may be, is far from geno. Whether it’s in colonial America, the old west, or WW2 Europe. For real examples, look to Anatolia, its current occupying force, and their time tested allies of convenience.
Unfortunately they could not defend themselves against a greater force. To the victors the spoils. Guns against arrows. Who is going to win? There is an old saying‘don’t take a knife to a gun fight’.
Your ancestors are thieves. It only got “savage” when you tried to steal the land away effectively killing my ancestors causing the self defense you misname “hostility”
16:00 I can't understand why Custer would destroy all the horses (ponies). I COULD understand it if the rendition of the attack was chronicled by an anti-Custer author, but otherwise, it makes no sense at all. Horses are a valuable commodity, especially to cavalrymen.
Another great video, thanks Is amazing to me that the US government trusted these Indians to actually give them guns and ammunition or that they could be pacified by giving them land and feeding them
The white man did far worse, into current times. Read up on human experiments on women and children in the mid 20th century...and of course, today we have massive sex trafficking and pedophilia.
I am so sad that the Indians, who did these brutal things to each other in previous years, turned those brutalities onto the settlers & thus sealed the fate of all Indians, peaceful or not, to reservations & the death of many of themselves. It was a complicated mess but, they made it worse. It wasn't like the Indians lived in absolute bliss & peace among the many tribes & none of them had a Nation state where they owned the land & protected their borders, only loose agreements of hunting grounds; it wasn't a concept for them to have borders, it was an inevitable outcome, sad as it was for everyone.
How many have been taught that Custer attacked Black Kettle's Camp unprovoked? No mention of BK raiding and murdering prior to this? Which according to this historical account documents Black Kettle's band was raiding and murdering.
Like the Chairman of the Indian tribe in Yellowstone says, "The war isn't over. Our side has just quit fighting". There are Indians who in their own way are still at war with the white man and the US government.
The ones that made it over from Asia interestingly, according to Smithsonian magazine about a 3rd had European genetics and 2/3 Asian. No one owned the land in the Americas as there were many that migrated here. Ther were many tribes across the Americas with mixed heritage. When you go back through history you'll find different empires conquering civilizations all over the world. Ex: great Britain once under Roman rule. As u put it "illegal alien invasion " would be more of those wishing to reside in an established nation but not respecting immigration policy and simply entering illegally.
@JBPrickster please explain racist answer. There's this new thing called Google. Key in genetics of earliest people's to migrate to the Americas. I quoted Smithsonian magazine as one source as I thought it was the easiest to find. Smithsonian had several sources.
When we landed at Cape Henry, in April 1607, & gave thanks to GOD for our safe passage, we were driven off by a hostile Indian detachment. We found that there were friendly & hostile tribes in Chief Wahunsonacock's realm. We learned of the demands of their god, "Okee" / "Kiwasa" -regular demands of blood & pain, & death from his own race. But, the pain, blood, & death of a "wingapo" / white person were much more satisfying to their god. The first Indian Reservations in the U.S. were the Mattaponi & Pamunkey Res. The latter-day hollyweird whitewashing of the indigenoues peoples is incorrect as well as their total demonization by popular media in days gone by. Even though a race or sub race may have a name for itself, you still try to give each individual a chance to prove who they are.
You should report the Black Kettle Washita camp's version of that massacre. Apparently, the US Army lied, as usual, (they took no battlefield count, they just guessed later) Cheyenne woman say it was only about 15 warriors killed, including 2 Sioux and 1 Arapaho and about 18 to 40 women and children. 7th Cavalry Halfbreed scouts gave the figure of 40 women and kids killed. Black Kettle paid for what the some atrocities that Dog Soldiers did. An Indian chief has no control over what the braves do. It's not a dictatorship. The same problem that Cochise had down in Arizona territory. The cavalry would blame him for what uncontrollable braves would do.
There is vast information promoted about the Sand Creek Massacre of Black Kettle’s tribe - tragic event. But little to no effort to tell “the rest of the story.” Thank you.
Actually, as I understood it they knew the Indians relied heavily the buffalo. By getting rid of their main subsidence (food, clothing, etc source ) they could be easily conquered. Maybe it did become a sort of sport(as the settlers didn't utilize them for food etc)but the buffalo were going to be killed either way.
Rescue of that woman who hsd been abducted in her early life was a testimony to her enduring faith. and the super human determination of troops in freezing conditions to rescue her. It is also indicative that all persons and creeds are both good and bad; and the same for the white man, also, who came in conflict w red man, w their imperfections, slavrery, and atrocities on settler wagons, and small homes?
In the end, it was a clash of civilizations and the migrating not colonialist,migrating Europeans just as the Indians were migrants at one time clashed and they lost to the victors go to spoils that’s life.
The Gatling, the Maxim, the various Brownings, the Lewis, the Benet-Mercie(to a lesser degree), were all great bringers of peace and civilization to the ignorant, bloodthirsty savages.
CUSTER AND HIS MEN WERE RAPISTS,MANY CHEYENNE WOMEN WERE CAPTURED DURING THE WASHITA ISSUE AND SAVAGLY RAPED BY THE SOLDIERS,THESE INCLUDED YOUNG GIRLS !!!!!!
It is important for haughty self-righteous Europeans to remember not only how they were 2000 or 3000 years ago, but 200 or 300 years ago... and even a mere 80 years ago. Throughout history, 95% of people were pretty harmless and just wanted peace. That other 5% forms mercenaries, bandits, revolutionaries, religious persecutions and heretic burnings, populist militant uprisings, holy wars, inquisitions, witch burnings, highwaymen, pirates, sadists, vikings, conquistadors. The 5% in any culture make life hard on the 95% who just want a peaceful life.
@ nothing, then you have not read the history of your own country, every country that the white man invaded and that goes for the white man over the entire world has stolen the land that belonged to the native inhabitants. If you really believe that the white man did not ravish the Indian women then you have a closed mind. The problems with the past is it is just that it’s the past. But to whitewash over what happened is wrong. Yes white men and women were slaughtered by people who had been living happily in their own lands. Which incidentally have been taken over by the white tribe, I am white, yes the Indians fought and killed each other as did the Africans and more to the point SO DID WE KILL OUR OWN WHITE PEOPLE… thats history, but it is shameful that all the countries in the world who have indigenous people in the countries now owned by white people live mostly in poverty and are treated as second class citizens. But we are the children we did not do this, but we have not done anything to put it right either, in Africa, Australia’s new Zealand the whole of America and just about everywhere..
In the description of this video (…more), the sentence should read (These tell); instead, it reads (“These tells”). Also, the very last sentence links General Sheridan and General Sherman together, because there is no comma between the names. It should read (Sheridan, and Sherman), but instead it reads (“Sheridan and Sherman”).
I had a professor in Arizona who was researching the diaries of women who were kidnapped by Native Americans on the East Coast during the Puritanical times. Several of the women did not want to return back to their families. Partially because they had children with their Native American husbands but also because The lifestyle of Puritans was so unpleasant that it was actually better to be with the Native Americans.
The apartheid white South Africans didn't behave like those in the US and Australia and kill almost all the aboriginal populations and so had to be punished for the crime of not committing ethnic cleansing.
Because the apartheid governments were NEVER in a position to do so. Had they been, they MOST CERTAINLY WOULD HAVE! Native Americans didn't have natural immunity to European diseases. As a result, between 65% and 95% were killed BEFORE even making contact with settlers. Due to this massive de-population, Europeans easily outnumbered the Native population within a few years of entering an area! Had the White South Africans outnumbered the indigenous Africans they SURELY WOULD HAVE DONE THE SAME!!!!
It is important for self-righteous Europeans to remember not only how they were 2000 or 3000 years ago, but 200 or 300 years ago... and even a mere 80 years ago. Throughout history, 95% of people were pretty harmless and just wanted peace. That other 5% form mercenaries, bandits, revolutionaries, religious persecutions and heretic burnings, populist militant uprisings, holy wars, inquisitions, witch burnings, highwaymen, pirates, sadists, vikings, conquistadors, thieves and slavers. The 5% in any culture make life hard on the 95% who just want a peaceful life. Most of our institutions and law enforcement efforts are necessary and intended to deter and restrain the impulses and desires of the amoral and selfish 5%.
One of my male ancestors left his wife and 3 small children one morning, right after his wife had given birth, to find a nurse to come help her (probably a midwife or wet nurse). He returned to find his entire family murdered by Indians, as well as the neighbors whose home had also been set fire. He did eventually remarry and that is how my line came to be. My family has been here since the 1600's and we have books and diaries written by members that tell many stories of their hardships. It really brings history alive when you learn about your own families' past.
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@L8-4A-D8 Bless you and your ancestors. Yes, my family arrived in 1618 and I feel for all of the hardships our ancestors went through.
Wow the family history you have must be astonishing to read!
Thanks to this site and others like it, It becomes clear that pre-contact, the norm among N American natives was to hunt, and while hunting, keep an eye out for any others, follow them to their villages, and then plan sneak attacks, murdering all adult males and boys over the age of puberty as well as all infants and toddlers (sometimes allowing abducted women to carry their babies until they cried, then murdering the children, often by holding them by the ankles and smashing their brains out on rocks or trees). Sometimes males would be taken captive and brought back to the native village, where torture was a form of entertainment. Since romantic love, courting and marriage didn't occur among natives, it is pretty obvious that rape was the norm and native women were treated like slaves and pack animals, so THEY were "allowed" to perform the most painful and drawn out tortures on captives. Captive Women and girls were raped repeatedly, and kept around to perform menial tasks. Of course, any tools and weapons were part of the "booty". When Europeans settlers moved west from populated areas, they were in for the same treatment. The only difference was that natives would first approach openly, feigning friendship and welcome while they conducted reconnaissance and would return in numbers to murder, rape and steal. It was much more lucrative to attack settler families, as there were fewer men to fight back, and booty included guns, metal tools, pots and pans, livestock and horses. Captive women could be ransomed. These facts are being scrubbed from history, and I am very grateful that someone has the courage to inform us of the actual "unworthy" history.
So sad! I don't understand the senseless killing of women and children - on either side. Those written diaries are precious indeed. I cannot, and don't especially want, to imagine the hardships our ancestors went through when they first got here.
Astonishing story ! So glad that Sarah survived & prospered into adulthood with eight children and lived well beyond the years that her dad & mom were robbed of. 💟
Both American settlers & soldiers and Native American tribes committed atrocities in the name of their own interests. Anyone who says the Native Americans are peaceful innocent victims or that American soldiers and settlers were righteous & honorable have a very childish view of not just American History but human nature.
@@neolibertarian5492 wounded knee
Cue the white dude from michigan and the native from new mexico both saying their respective familes were angels
@IbnRushd-mv3fp Ha! Like a white guy would be allowed to say anything nice about other white people without getting slapped just for saying it! That's hilarious!
One was the colonizer aggressor/attacker, and the other one was defending against invasion. Try to spin it however you’d like but there was and is a big difference.
@@georgeatwood4550oh for heaven’s sake. What’s wrong with you! Are you anti-immigrant? These were people merely seeking a better life. Some of them were welcomed by natives and some were not. They merely did what immigrants all over the world do, transfer their culture and sometimes that culture is dominant. I just can’t stand anti immigrant racism like yours. Go away.
My grandmothers family were one of the first to settle in Ellsworth County. Two of their female ancestors were once snatched by Cheyenne near the Saline River. I believe the story goes that they were rescued by soldiers from Ft Harker and returned battered but alive and whole.
Did those women had families or were considered "undesirable"?
What? What a weird comment.
They were 2 teenage girls doing chores on the farm, which was near the river. Obviously desirable because the redskins kidnapped them both, and Im sure took liberties with both young ladies. They were rescued FORCIBLY by US Army cavalry soldiers.
@@LordoftheOzarks Sorry, english not a first language. I was asking: After they were saved did they got married and had families or were undesirable by the settler men after being kidnapped?
@@anon2034 They both eventually married and moved away from Kansas.
@@LordoftheOzarks A happy ending, I guess.
People who pretend to be sad that the advanced European civilization conquered the New World wouldn’t want to live any other way.
I concur
Aint that the TRUTH!!!!!!!!
Yes but we could have left a state or 2 in its original state to go out on a buffalo hunt on horseback to have the best of both worlds
Goddamned right brother!! One more thing, Isnt getting phucked 4 ways to Sunday by a train of feathered savages referred to as being ''ravaged'' not ravished? Let me know, thanks RC
Yeah, and to raid each others villages for wimminz - or minz whatevea floats ya canoe
Hard to believe that in just 100 years, 1869 - 1969, we went from riding horses and fighting Indians to putting a man on the Moon.
Well, we really didn't put a man on the moon. NASA=Not a Space Agency.
AND WHAT DID THAT ACCOMPLISH??? THEY ARE STILL SAVAGES AND ON RESERVATIONS !! AND NOT NICE AND NOT CIVILIZED !! BEEN ON RESEVATIONS?? GO SEE THEM !! THEN GET AN OPINION BTW, THEY WILL NOT LIKE ANYONE WHITE OR NOT THEM ARE TREATED RUDELY AND THE TRIBES STILL DISPISE EACH OTHER AND NOT ENGINEERS !!!!
Even more incredible that we can’t get a man back on the moon in 2024. Really incredible
It's been done six times already.
The space race has been dormant for half a century, and that's why it's been a lack of funding to go further.
@@acajutla
The space agency GPS’D the earth. They do many other things.
My ancestor, Benjamin Braine--son of poor Irish immigrants--, was held captive in the 18th century for several years after his family, and the neighboring family, were horribly butchered. One of the children, Benjamin's brother, was actually made to stand on a stump, while axes were thrown at him by the assailants who disliked his red hair. Another little brother was sold to another tribe and died from the brutal conditions of his slavery. Benjamin was adopted by Native parents that had just lost their same-aged son. He was given the name "Go-by-Moonshine," as a result of him being brought into the tribe by river during the bright moonlight. Adoption wasn't the fairytale that I think Hollywood tries to make it into though, and when Benjamin grew sick at one point, his adopted father took him into the woods, intent to kill him if he didn't seem strong enough to his standards. There was a particular Native that was reportedly unkind to Benjamin throughout all his years with the tribe. At one point, he taunted Benjamin that he was the one that had killed Benjamin's mother. Benjamin killed him and fled. He escaped and, by all known accounts, never went back. Ironically, his mother and a few people had managed to barricade themselves within a house during the massacre. She survived but moved far away. It's unknown if they ever saw each other again or even knew that the other had survived. Where the trend to romanticize Native captivity of Whites, or White captivity of Natives, comes from I will never know. These are actions of war; of slavery--not romantic at all.
Zwi Magdal
Truth.
I don't comment often but I wanted to thank you for having the courage to reveal the truth and, of course, presenting it without putting an opinion on it. So many of us, myself included, had been given a whitewashed one sided view of what actually occurred. The U.S. was always depicted as villains. It was when I was researching for my exhibit work that I too found contemporary accounts which opened my eyes. There is never any excuse for brutality against the most vulnerable. These actions have their consequences and considering those actions, the restraint practiced by our government was laudable. Thanks again and best wishes! - T.R.
What you described is history being rewritten by the losers, because the winners felt bad about winning. I am so grateful for channels like Unworthy History and Dates and Dead Guys.
@@Nystariii Thanks, I will check out Dates and Dead guys.
Indeed.
many men have taught each other abt their bodies
Party #2 tricks party #1 and takes there land, and stops there culture. Party #1 retaliates and party #2 is shocked because they thought party #1 was peaceful and weak. So party #2 wipes out 95% of party #1. How is this laudable? Its genocide. The federal government has been making reparations and allowing concessions to tribes for quite some time now because hindsite being what it is, WE were the VILLIANS!
I am 69% settler and 29% Native American. My mother's side - European Heritage came in the mid 1600s. My father's side have always been here. We are watching corporate greediness destroy the air, the soil and the water in North America. Many of the creeks are completely unable to be accessed by fish and wildlife. Corporations Never clean up the toxic messes they leave and it is a shame and an outrage.
Was there a point to all that yappin?
@@Dcll8451 Was there a point to any of your comment other than you're saying someone is making a point?
@ yes I’m asking if this person is trying to make a point or other than just blabber. I’m guessing you and her had the same type of stroke
YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN ON A RESERVATION OR EVEN WORKED WITH THEM AS THEY WOULD NOT LIKE YOU ONE BIT , HONEY YOU ARE SO DANG SILLY AND ILLERATE!!
You make a very valid point. We have no respect for nature and its gifts. I understand your ancestors thanked game for their life, that they might live. We have much to learn.
In his book The Golden Bough, Sir James Frazier provides an eye-witness account of the Pawnee's annual springtime human sacrifice that occurred in April of 1837. After the magic murder, the Pawnee chief ate the victim's heart and the rest of the tribe ate her body.
The golden bough was an eye opener for me!
That book is part of The Great Books, published by Encyclopedia Britannica. It's an incredible work. Highly recommended.
Demonic.
Yup, every one of my ancestors was like “hey Aztecs were badass and powerful warriors, blah blah blah, brown pride, blah blah” but conveniently left out the part about the live sacrifices, rape, plunder, war and enslavement of other warrior tribes and people.
The Jews had human sacrifice just the same. It is as old as mankind.
One side of my family was founded by a 10 yo Swedish orphan. We know nothing about the man who founded my mother's side. Family lore says he was a Welshman impressed into the British Navy. We have no records of the women. There were many, many Europeans who did not come to North America by choice.
And many hundreds of thousands came from Ireland as slaves fleeing famine. The Irish slave trade was enormous down south. They had it every bit as bad as Blacks.
@@lilyw.719 Hey now, quit with the historical accuracy. That’s not how the state forms young minds
You could have your DNA analysed with a company called Living DNA - this could confirm any Welsh genetics in your makeup.
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The Irish were never bought and sold on the auction block.
They were not slaves,but indentured servants.Their service did not follow the status of their mothers,as it did with Black slaves.
They finished their term of service and went on their way.Blacks were enslaved until death or they were set free with legal documents.
@@lilyw.719 Worse at certain points because they were actually cheaper than black slaves and that reflected in their treatment at times.
History is full of one nation slaughtering and obliterating the weaker ones that came before them. That goes for the Native American tribes amongst themselves. Occasionally the stronger nations so savaged their predecessors to the point of complete destruction. This was the way of the world since time immemorial. It is only in this country ( and Australia) that serious efforts are being made to recognize the plight of the native Americans . But that’s a reflection of the kindness and civility unique to the American people.
these men these men have such powerful thighs and biceps
Not unique to Americans, the British were pretty mild colonists. Look at the antics in the New Zealand parliament by Maoris who engaged in savage tribal wars, cannibalism and a culture of obsessive revenge killing before Christians arrived.
@yesm2302 Very good observation. I believe we have reached to the point that recriminations are not useful. Instead we must return to recognizing and praising what these people went through to tame a wild land and build a nation.
I just wrote a similar comment. Happy you wrote yours. Brutal just brutal. I hope we're almost done with the brutality
@@justjosie0107I can't pretend to feel the pain and rage that might still linger from those whose ancestors were "tamed" to build this nation. There's always two sides to a story. History can be sad or glorious. The conquest had to happen. But it doesn't mean everyone is gonna like the retelling of it...
Thanks
Thanks Darren!
This history was not that long ago. My grandfather was ready to start school when Custer attacked on the Washita. My father, the 4th of 5 children, was born in 1899. Then me on the last day of 1941.
It's interesting that atrocities perpetrated by Natives were never mentioned in school. All of the bad behavior was laid at the feet of my ancestors.
Yep I was ashamed of MSNBC Lady host who was upset over florida rejecting history book because it did not include the Indian atrocities. I'm radical moderate but I vote Dem only. Liberal all upset how Repug areas making Slavery not covered much and not mentioning how bad it was. But liberals do history editing themselves. Liberal's upset back when I young for history not covering Trail of Tears.
Back When Western Media was huge in books, Movie and then TV they showed the Indians as evil and the settlers were pure and nice. So the movement to make it clear the Whites did lots of atrocities was correct. Small minority of Indians and much larger group of whites on left came up with the Naitives were pure and peaceful before whites came and only whites evil. Vast majority of Indians, they prefer that term by massive 70 percent plus not involved and they probably upset how this Indian were peaceful disrespected their great fighters and emasculated them. Thus Poll after poll of Indians showed over 70 percent support for Redskin name probably for same reason people of Norse descent like name Viking as both groups were savage warriors who raped, pillaged and burned and took slaves. People tend to like savage outlaw names for teams it's not an insult it's praise.
On NPR heard first time about the Black Cherokee about a year ago from Indian Activist stating these Black Cherokee descendants of Slaves who suffered the most on the Trail of Tears something that I never heard of before. The Black Cherokee had recently finally achieved full tribe membership.
The truth is both sides in this savages the whites being civilized a lie.
Similar the Japanise Internment was in part cause by three Japanese citizen and resident holding other Native Hawaian US citizens at gun point to help a Japanise pilot burn his plane and burn his paperwork. Pilot who landed his damaged plane on the small Natives mostly only Island off of Kawaii after the Attack on Pearl Harbor. So first chance to betray the US Japanise betrayed US. I still think racism was part of the Intern choice especially considering how well many Japanese American fought and died for the US in Europe.
So. It doesn't give the white people the right to take their land.
That’s our state-funded propaganda machine of an education system. We don’t have to accept it.
Because the whites were the invaders
You must not have gone to a very good school. Our schools covered the atrocities committed by both sides. Heck, if you watched any old westerns they talked about the pillaging and killing by the Native Americans as well as the lies and cruel treatment by the military and government
Im native american and English, every Thanksgiving i punch myself in the face then say sorry and your welcome lmao
lol
That's awesome. I am American, but have German heritage. What day should I celebrate and what should I do to myself?
@@johningle1 I've given up on celebrating "holidays" because holiday means "holy day" in old English. Holidays are not holy. Even birthdays are idolatrous. They were first practiced by Pharaoh's in Egypt to celebrate their "God" status. Even if a person isn't pretending to be God, making an entire day about oneself is idolatry. Birthday cakes, candles and gift giving are also historical occult or pagan practices. My child also doesn't want birthday parties anymore either. Thanksgiving could be redeemable even though it isn't specifically holy. Maybe it could be a celebration about being thankful to God.
@@jes4026So ridiculous. Talk about indoctrinating children. Poor kid.
😂 excellent
Great to hear of first hand accounts of historical Native American behavior.
The Lewis and Clark are probably the best. The accounts from furtraders are excellent as well. When there is active conflict, the facts get screwed partly because people say and do things during war that they do not normally do. Read what was written by the axis about the allies during ww2 and vise verse, it was not always the most accurate.
the natives were defending their land.
@solanjedere true and the settlers didn't always realize that they were trespassing and endangering the natives. There was a lot of misinformation/miscommunication as well. For example, the Osage tribe got blamed for the benders massacring settlers, and the army would sometimes attack innocent villages because they could not tell the native tribes apart. They all looked the same and lived in teepees.
@@solanjedereThere is no such thing as natives. They were nomads who only were in that territory for a few hundred years and they were only there because they genocided the previous occupants.
@@uberkraeger that's quite funny, there are no records in history about it except in the revisional white (not serious) narrative that was created to cover its crimes. So tell, where are they now, the ones u called nomads, why do they pratically disappeared? Oh yes, they just moved... to the cemetery. LOL
Thank you for this piece of history .
This is a really great story. Thank you.
many many men are now wiser
Unless "dead & scalped" and didn't wake up. 😂😂
God's teeth! You couldn't make it up! 😢😊
War has a tendency of bringing out the 'Beast' in Anyone...even Brother v Brother.... in Civil War.
Hatred is rampant today, so not much changed
Sir James Frazier describes how the Pawnees sacrificed a fourteen or fifteen year-old Sioux girl by roasting her alive on a spit and then shooting her to death with arrows. (The Golden Bough, page 501, Simon and Schuster)
The Boobles request to eat (a Comanche woman of the Comanche who played a lute to stir others in a battle) but the Spaniards deny the request;..however,..having captured a young male Comanche they offer him in sacrifice na costume secretly (1665, Spanish Roots of America, by Bp David Arias,1992,p.175). Paul Ragueneau, S.J.., Shadows of Huronia,AD 1652(in French),,2003: details how the Iroquois slaughered about 10 000 Hurons
Pure devils. And then people want to cry about missionaries attempting to convert and civilize them. Animals.
Could of been propaganda
@@fionnmcnessathat would be convenient for your wold view wouldn’t it
@ckva7888 land of the free stolen from. Natives the new British empire in the US bullies
I highly recommend watching Apocalypto by Mel Gibson to understand how the natives treated each other. Also, read books on the natives before the white men came. Competing tribes regularly raided, murdered and raped each other. It was the norm. Now, I do not condone but I do understand that these atrocities are related to the HUMAN DARK SIDE!
Regardless of present sympathies, the Comanche were brutal towards other tribes as well as white settlers.
😂😂😂😂😂😂 because Mel Gibson is such a completely unbiased "historian". Yeah some bands were very brutal and warlike, some weren't. Comparing all Natives to the Comanche would be like calling all English men Jack the Ripper. grow up and throw away your prejudices that are informed by your cultural and historical illiteracy. This MF really just cited a Mel Gibson movie as a factual historical documentary 😂😂😂
And many of them cannibalized their enemies.
The Mel Gibson movie is a diffrernt group of natives who had kings and fought for territories in the South now latin america, not of the horse riding and buffalo hunting tribes of north america or US
They worshipped demons that's why.
Great story telling!!! I was transfixed from beginning to end. Thank you!!!
The 'Little house on the prairie' author's family migrated from western Wisconsin to Nebraska during this time. She writes of their fear of the Indian trouble in Nebraska being partly the reason they eventually moved to Western Minnesota where her stories are set.
I love those books. There's a chapter in one of the books where just her and ma were at home. Two NA men walked in and demanded something to eat. Ma was terrified but kept her cool and prepared food for them. The 2 men sat on the floor saying nothing, ate the food and left.
They were there in Indian Territory illegally.
@@AnnaC63, people should know when they are conquered.
Wasn’t that Kansas Territory west of Independence? Along the Verdigris river? Then they moved back to western Wisconsin, then onto Minnesota.
Reading deep into the backstory, much of the Little House series was fictionalized, re-arranged, and many characters were composites of several characters. I so loved those books as a child and was sorely disappointed to learn how inaccurate they were, historically, just to tell a better tale. Laura and her daughter reworked her diaries quite a bit. The Little House in the Big Woods and LH on the Prairie were before Laura was old enough to remember all those details.
Finding out all that made my heart sad. It’s best just to read the books with a childlike belief that it all happened as it is written. And don’t let your children read the 9th and 10th books. It ruins the idyllic experience.
@Zaphod771 Like you would "know" and then just meekly submit almost immediately ?
Like if the whole Chinese or Russian Army got behind all of the Native Americans and the Chinese or Russian military sponsored NAs taking back their land and sending non natives currently living there to go live in some concentration camp with almost no rights...you'd take that calmly . You'd accept that and just get to work doing a good job for the government after they slaughtered your whole family. You'd just say, "Well you won fair and square. Let's shake hands and be friends and never mention this again."
Wow. If you ever suffer any serious adversity in your life I'm sure you'll qualify for becoming a modern saint. All of your friends and family must see you as a true spiritual leader. I look forward to your story .
Almost the whole state of Oklahoma was once an Indian Reservation.
Dude, the whole US was Indian territory!
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Go back to school
OK is still the HQ for the Five Civilized Tribes in Muskogee, OK, the destination for the forced resettlement along the "Trail of Tears."
Nothings changed there
The Commanches made all other tribes look like like model citizens.
Close. Apaches' of the time were second only to Comanches. I remember a half-white, half-commanche young woman in my youth who was drop-dead gorgeous. But she had mommy issues because her mother had also had a gorgeous,, blond younger daughter too. So she acted out. Not marriage material due to her destructive behavior.
We were not a peaceful people.
Humans, irrespective of geographical location, have a tendency to be vicious toward one another.
@@robedmund9948 some groups much more than others.
Unfortunately most humans are not "peaceful". We are descended from Chimpanzees and even Chimpanzees have gang wars and such. We don't control that animal within.
Human nature is human nature.The same no matter the race or culture
“Across the Plains in 1844” by Catherine Sager is an interesting story, well worth reading.
American Indians were Stone Age people. If the Europeans had not conquered this continent the Indians would still be Stone Age people.
After killing about ten million Indians ( no one counted the rapes) the civilized folks aborted another thirty million of their own - thank god for civilization
If so, maybe we wouldn’t have the environmental destruction and coast to coast commercial cesspool we have today.
I bet if Muslims tried to take over the USA you would be the first to complain. If they want to live a primitive life that is their choice.
I'm a standard-issue white American, but even I know that statement is inaccurate and a gross exaggeration. Some tribes were nomads, some were hunter-gatherers. Other tribes lived in settlements and practiced agriculture. Tribes formed and dissolved alliances, had allies and enemies, and settled disputes over territory and resources with warfare. There are interesting parallels with ongoing tribal conflicts between the various nations of Europe. Inasmuch as everyone, including the Indians, migrated to the Americas, Europeans can be viewed as just another tribe who arrived very late. What the Indians lacked was cultural unity and European technology.
@@johnsnodgrass6769Only a fool could think that would be better
Why…The story of Sarah and Anna CAN’T be true.
I know because they made a movie of the great LOVE story. (Stolen Women, Captured Hearts)
So glad people are wise to all the false narratives we have been fed.
(If unclear, my comment is sarcastic.)
I watched that because it starred Janine Turner but hated it.
Thank you. My daughter was taught the false narrative in high school in the 1990s. And the TV series, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, perpetuated it. They made Black Kettle out to be a sweet, peace-loving man who did no wrong ever. Now we know the truth.
... Yeah, ... Just a different take on 'mudsharkery'.
Not a Hallmark movie!😱
The atrocities by the native Americans fighting with the French in colonial times were incredibly bloodthirsty. Whenever the English colonials had to surrender in battles, the French could not control their Indian combatants who would fall on and brutally murder the unarmed men, women & children.
Quite true. That's why George Washington destroyed an entire indian town.
This is the tv movie Stolen Women: Captured Hearts
Yeah. It was more of a bodice ripper than a version of history.
Yes it was a fluff movie with attractive people in it he was Hansom
I'd really hate "to be surprised to wake up dead and scalped."
The natives committed atrocities right from the start, the Lost Colony of N.C.'s coast 120 people disappeared in a few years. The White man didn't invent racism.
There were many tribes in North Carolina, not all of whom particularly liked each other. It's almost a certainty that the surviving members of the Lost Colony in Roanoke went native. The simply went to live with their friends rather than wait to be murdered by their enemies.
@jamesseaman2950
Murdered? The colonists, were gentlemen and soldiers, they didn't know how yo feed themselves....the only reason they would be "murdered" was because they kept raiding the natives for food, taking hostages, stealing from them and digging up their dead to eat them. Its more likely they chose to live with the natives rather than starve.
Racism is part of the human condition. No people group is immune.
it was their country not the white mans
Right from the start of what? The invasion?
I want to thank you for reporting the written accounts of what was happening. We have an entire generation of school teachers that have never read this side of Plains Indian culture. This is the white settlers' account of what happened, but I believe it's all accurate. Why were the Indians were so barbaric? I think it is because ALL they (Indians) knew was hunting game and stealing from other tribes. White people were just another tribe to steal from. They did not know how to farm and needed vast land ranges to sustain their numbers, but the white people were taking over more land. We must see that this was the only way it could turn out. The tribes could not adapt without killing, raping, and enslaving other people. They didn't know how, and there was not enough time to learn a new life.
Wow. If this isn't "Manifest Destiny" talking then whet is it? The whites were an invasive species but the Indians needed to adapt?
@@ericpowell4350 YES
@@ericpowell4350IKR. As if whites weren't doing the same to each other during their CRUSADES. 😂
@@ericpowell4350 Yes, the 'whites' were just another invasive species. The was no 'the indians' - it was 'tribe-against-tribe'..
Brutality went both ways.
At 14:17 one would not be surprised to Wake up dead and scalped! What a bizarre statement!
I have Pawnee blood and my ancestors we’re ABSOLUTELY savage.
Terrific. Thank you.
Thanks for the educational video.in Europe is fals public opinion about american indians that they ware nobels and angels and always victims of European settlers
Only dumb people believe it.
My family was one of the original settlers in oklahoma. Lived in a dugout on a riverbed.
"Ravished"; to fill someone with joy, pleasure or happiness.
I get that it can also mean "to whisk away" but in this context?
The word youre looking for is "Ravaged".
“Ravish” is an older word meaning “to seize and carry off by force”. “Ravage” means when destruction is spread over a wide area by war or an another disastrous event.
Unless it was enjoyable.. which I doubt
Ravished also means sexually assaulted and was often expressed in that context in days gone by. "Ravish the women kill the men".
@giftothegab24 famin ravished the land ..
Rapture .. I think
I love how people, especially those in academia have romanticized Native Americans; they’re treated as though they were these defenseless tribes who smoked pipes and danced by open fires. They were ruthless killers who had been fighting other tribes long before Europeans settled in North America. They pillaged and plundered like it was a recreational activity; they kidnapped and killed men, women, and children. They massacred tens of thousands of European settlers and wouldn’t have stopped until every one was killed out of existence. Eventually European settlers began taking steps to defend themselves and that’s when the tide turned but don’t ever let anyone tell you otherwise. Native Americans weren’t peace loving people, they were exactly how the people of those times described them as when they called them savages.
Gotta love some if the Indian names - its like what we would call each other if we just dngaff - I used to call a friend BigHead - he had a size 8 hat and his dome was gigantic sometimes we called him headquarters or Domepiece
We visited the Custer Battlefield, where the names of Indian warriors are written on a wall. My kids' favorite was "Yells at Daybreak."
My great great grandfather was in some of these skirmishes at the age of 44.
My grandfather was born in 1865 in Georgia. His father had fought in the Civil War for the Confederacy. After the Civil War my great grandfather moved his family to Louisiana when my grandfather was a boy. Once he was grown, my grandfather built a large house in 1900 in western Louisiana and lived and farmed on 180 acres of land until his death in 1948. My grandfather and grandmother had 10 children with my father being their last child. My grandmother's father has also fought in the Civil War for a Louisiana regiment.
Congratulations to Unworthy History for being an arse!
It's impressive that your grandfather was born in 1865! My grandfather was born in 1921 and me in 1978. May I ask when your father (the 10th child, right? ) was born? And you?
@@someone3187 My dad was born in 1914 and I was born in 1942. My dad was 29 with a wife and 3 kids so he thought he was safe from the draft in WW2. The US had a manpower crunch after D-Day so he was drafted in 1944, was wounded in Belgium, hospitalized in England, returned to his unit in Germany but never fired his M-1 in combat. All he wanted was to go home to his family!
@@jeffingram9916 So your grandfather was 49 when your dad was born. Did you get to know him at all? Thank you for filling in the details!
@@someone3187 My grandfather died in 1948 when I was 6 years old. I barely have a memory or two of him.
"These terms were generous.........."...🤣🤣🤣
The only reason you can't call it a genocide is because they were given the choice, fight on and be annihilated or surrender and live. You don't get to surrender in a genocide.
Are you slow? 😐
That’s a very naive out look of the over all picture . First off the intent of Europeans was never to genocide them that’s a false narrative . The “ native Americans “ routinely committed genocide against other races and tribes . The civilization of Chaco Canyon was utterly wiped out by native Americans . A killing field in which 100,000 skeletons were found riddled with arrow heads ( this was the last of a particular tribe that was surrounded) was unearthed in eastern Kansas . Another Native American killing field ( genocide) was found and unearthed near Ft. Ancient in S .Ohio . They stopped counting the skeletons at 30,000. Chief Cornstalk a Shawnee Chief pointed out to whites of his time of a site near the falls of the Ohio river the remaining bones of a race of people his ancestors eliminated . When the Iraquoi Indians got guns they went on an attempted genocide of the Shawnee speaking peoples their ancestral enemies . These are just the ones that have slipped out into public knowledge. State University departments tend to cover up this information as they want to push the innocent noble savage - all - white people - are - evil narrative , this because many are Marxists and want to destabilize America by causing race devisions and male /female disunity .
@RonLawrence-ut2yr they still had a choice ,fight & die or quit & live. Hitler did'nt give out any choices. And my mother was half Native American.
Is because there are more now than ever before. Relocating people, however wrong it may be, is far from geno. Whether it’s in colonial America, the old west, or WW2 Europe. For real examples, look to Anatolia, its current occupying force, and their time tested allies of convenience.
What extraordinary stories. Thank you.
What happened to the other girl. ???
Really interesting. Thank you.
there is bad people on both sides and good people on both sides. Just your point of view!!😢
The outcome was fated to be f-ed up from the start!
Hey I’m wondering if you cover Canadian history as well? I would love a video about the Frog Lake massacre in Alberta!
Yes I would like to see that also, I’ve heard very little of the Canadian history with the natives
Nobody cares about Canadada
@@VisualTediumwho are you? Dump or Muskrat?
Its funny how some people get when you invade their lands and take them for their own. It's almost as if they were fighting a war.
Unfortunately they could not defend themselves against a greater force. To the victors the spoils. Guns against arrows. Who is going to win? There is an old saying‘don’t take a knife to a gun fight’.
Very well told story. 👏
After watching this channel i have nightmares about being captured by indians, well done.
Excellent channel my friend
Great video. 👍👍
God bless our ancestors who built a civilized nation out of this savage land. 🙏
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So true in Canada, Australia and N.Z. too 👍 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 🇳🇿
Your ancestors are thieves. It only got “savage” when you tried to steal the land away effectively killing my ancestors causing the self defense you misname “hostility”
I wish my white ancestors never came to North America centuries ago before it was a country, I hate this place.
@@frakismaximus3052 Yes, our people went through much the same as each other. Bless them all.
I love the old music at the end!
16:00 I can't understand why Custer would destroy all the horses (ponies). I COULD understand it if the rendition of the attack was chronicled by an anti-Custer author, but otherwise, it makes no sense at all. Horses are a valuable commodity, especially to cavalrymen.
He couldn't take them with him (no extra food for them in winter) and couldn't leave them for other Natives to use against settlers.
Another great video, thanks
Is amazing to me that the US government trusted these Indians to actually give them guns and ammunition or that they could be pacified by giving them land and feeding them
lovely people the red man is.
The white man did far worse, into current times. Read up on human experiments on women and children in the mid 20th century...and of course, today we have massive sex trafficking and pedophilia.
I am so sad that the Indians, who did these brutal things to each other in previous years, turned those brutalities onto the settlers & thus sealed the fate of all Indians, peaceful or not, to reservations & the death of many of themselves. It was a complicated mess but, they made it worse. It wasn't like the Indians lived in absolute bliss & peace among the many tribes & none of them had a Nation state where they owned the land & protected their borders, only loose agreements of hunting grounds; it wasn't a concept for them to have borders, it was an inevitable outcome, sad as it was for everyone.
Thanks ❤
How many have been taught that Custer attacked Black Kettle's Camp unprovoked? No mention of BK raiding and murdering prior to this? Which according to this historical account documents Black Kettle's band was raiding and murdering.
What happened to other girl??
Like the Chairman of the Indian tribe in Yellowstone says, "The war isn't over. Our side has just quit fighting". There are Indians who in their own way are still at war with the white man and the US government.
Question1: Who originally owned the land?
Question2: what's your opinion of illegal alien infiltration?
The ones that made it over from Asia interestingly, according to Smithsonian magazine about a 3rd had European genetics and 2/3 Asian. No one owned the land in the Americas as there were many that migrated here. Ther were many tribes across the Americas with mixed heritage. When you go back through history you'll find different empires conquering civilizations all over the world. Ex: great Britain once under Roman rule. As u put it "illegal alien invasion " would be more of those wishing to reside in an established nation but not respecting immigration policy and simply entering illegally.
@@jojokatz3256 Unfortunately for the responder, the racist answer didn't address either question. and no actual sources were cited.
@JBPrickster please explain racist answer. There's this new thing called Google. Key in genetics of earliest people's to migrate to the Americas. I quoted Smithsonian magazine as one source as I thought it was the easiest to find. Smithsonian had several sources.
@@jojokatz3256 Trusting social media is the road to ruin. You have demonstrated and proven this.
When we landed at Cape Henry, in April 1607, & gave thanks to GOD for our safe passage, we were driven off by a hostile Indian detachment. We found that there were friendly & hostile tribes in Chief Wahunsonacock's realm. We learned of the demands of their god, "Okee" / "Kiwasa" -regular demands of blood & pain, & death from his own race. But, the pain, blood, & death of a "wingapo" / white person were much more satisfying to their god. The first Indian Reservations in the U.S. were the Mattaponi & Pamunkey Res. The latter-day hollyweird whitewashing of the indigenoues peoples is incorrect as well as their total demonization by popular media in days gone by. Even though a race or sub race may have a name for itself, you still try to give each individual a chance to prove who they are.
That word ...
I do not think it means what you think it means.
US Indigenous were granted all the US rights in 1923.
Fantastic look forward to more information and historic history.
Irish were slaves as well..Google it, my great-grandfather was from Cork. 80,000 slaves went to Jamaica 30,000, were Irish
My relatives as well where Irish slaves sent to America
@matthansberry5795 There are people on here denying there were Irish slaves, Thank you for saying that.
In my village in York, Maine, a raid was called a massacre. What is the correct terminology?
When the settlers won it was a victory, when the Natives won it was a massacre. The winners write the history.
Amazing, all this information is suppressed
You should report the Black Kettle Washita camp's version of that massacre. Apparently, the US Army lied, as usual, (they took no battlefield count, they just guessed later) Cheyenne woman say it was only about 15 warriors killed, including 2 Sioux and 1 Arapaho and about 18 to 40 women and children. 7th Cavalry Halfbreed scouts gave the figure of 40 women and kids killed. Black Kettle paid for what the some atrocities that Dog Soldiers did. An Indian chief has no control over what the braves do. It's not a dictatorship. The same problem that Cochise had down in Arizona territory. The cavalry would blame him for what uncontrollable braves would do.
What would the invaders of their land expect them to do? Welcome them with open arms. The natives were being crowded out of their ancestral land!
There is vast information promoted about the Sand Creek Massacre of Black Kettle’s tribe - tragic event. But little to no effort to tell “the rest of the story.” Thank you.
Chayennes needs Western Freedom and Democracy
The Indians watched the entire buffalo herds that they had lived on for centuries , they were slaughtered for sport by the new settlers ,
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Actually, as I understood it they knew the Indians relied heavily the buffalo. By getting rid of their main subsidence (food, clothing, etc source ) they could be easily conquered. Maybe it did become a sort of sport(as the settlers didn't utilize them for food etc)but the buffalo were going to be killed either way.
That was an awful, wasteful thing! Disgraceful!
@@jojokatz3256 true
Absolutely shocking, what a wast, and people wonder why the Indians hated the white man.
Rescue of that woman who hsd been abducted in her early life was a testimony to her enduring faith. and the super human determination of troops in freezing conditions to rescue her. It is also indicative that all persons and creeds are both good and bad; and the same for the white man, also, who came in conflict w red man, w their imperfections, slavrery, and atrocities on settler wagons, and small homes?
In the end, it was a clash of civilizations and the migrating not colonialist,migrating Europeans just as the Indians were migrants at one time clashed and they lost to the victors go to spoils that’s life.
I know of nowhere that native people weren’t conquered.
I wonder what happened to Anna Morgan ?
The Gatling, the Maxim, the various Brownings, the Lewis, the Benet-Mercie(to a lesser degree), were all great bringers of peace and civilization to the ignorant, bloodthirsty savages.
They reaped what they sowed!
What happened to the other girl?
And what did the white men do to the Indian women?
CUSTER AND HIS MEN WERE RAPISTS,MANY CHEYENNE WOMEN WERE CAPTURED DURING THE WASHITA ISSUE AND SAVAGLY RAPED BY THE SOLDIERS,THESE INCLUDED YOUNG GIRLS !!!!!!
It is important for haughty self-righteous Europeans to remember not only how they were 2000 or 3000 years ago, but 200 or 300 years ago... and even a mere 80 years ago. Throughout history, 95% of people were pretty harmless and just wanted peace. That other 5% forms mercenaries, bandits, revolutionaries, religious persecutions and heretic burnings, populist militant uprisings, holy wars, inquisitions, witch burnings, highwaymen, pirates, sadists, vikings, conquistadors.
The 5% in any culture make life hard on the 95% who just want a peaceful life.
Nothing nicer, nothing meaner, but one of these groups is romanticized and the other is demonized and the truth lies inbetween.
Nothing
@ nothing, then you have not read the history of your own country, every country that the white man invaded and that goes for the white man over the entire world has stolen the land that belonged to the native inhabitants. If you really believe that the white man did not ravish the Indian women then you have a closed mind. The problems with the past is it is just that it’s the past. But to whitewash over what happened is wrong. Yes white men and women were slaughtered by people who had been living happily in their own lands. Which incidentally have been taken over by the white tribe, I am white, yes the Indians fought and killed each other as did the Africans and more to the point SO DID WE KILL OUR OWN WHITE PEOPLE… thats history, but it is shameful that all the countries in the world who have indigenous people in the countries now owned by white people live mostly in poverty and are treated as second class citizens. But we are the children we did not do this, but we have not done anything to put it right either, in Africa, Australia’s new Zealand the whole of America and just about everywhere..
They haven’t changed much
In the description of this video (…more), the sentence should read (These tell); instead, it reads (“These tells”). Also, the very last sentence links General Sheridan and General Sherman together, because there is no comma between the names. It should read (Sheridan, and Sherman), but instead it reads (“Sheridan and Sherman”).
Let me pose a question for the Americans. How would you react if a foreign country invaded America?????
Oh boo hoo, Rome wiped out Carthage, what do you want done now about it.
I had a professor in Arizona who was researching the diaries of women who were kidnapped by Native Americans on the East Coast during the Puritanical times. Several of the women did not want to return back to their families. Partially because they had children with their Native American husbands but also because The lifestyle of Puritans was so unpleasant that it was actually better to be with the Native Americans.
What happened to Anna Morgan?
The warriors heads are going to become unglued over this.
so where did you live ? mumbai ? goa ? dehli ?
The apartheid white South Africans didn't behave like those in the US and Australia and kill almost all the aboriginal populations and so had to be punished for the crime of not committing ethnic cleansing.
Because the apartheid governments were NEVER in a position to do so. Had they been, they MOST CERTAINLY WOULD HAVE! Native Americans didn't have natural immunity to European diseases. As a result, between 65% and 95% were killed BEFORE even making contact with settlers. Due to this massive de-population, Europeans easily outnumbered the Native population within a few years of entering an area! Had the White South Africans outnumbered the indigenous Africans they SURELY WOULD HAVE DONE THE SAME!!!!
Nonsense.😊
@Paleotech1 My statement is the Absolute truth, that's why aboriginals outnumber whites in South Africa about 10:1.
Wait. The noble savage would never ravage ANY woman. They were all peaceful and spiritual. Lies and dis/information. Racist lies.
I hope thats sarcasm.too many recorded acts to call it disinformation
It is important for self-righteous Europeans to remember not only how they were 2000 or 3000 years ago, but 200 or 300 years ago... and even a mere 80 years ago. Throughout history, 95% of people were pretty harmless and just wanted peace. That other 5% form mercenaries, bandits, revolutionaries, religious persecutions and heretic burnings, populist militant uprisings, holy wars, inquisitions, witch burnings, highwaymen, pirates, sadists, vikings, conquistadors, thieves and slavers.
The 5% in any culture make life hard on the 95% who just want a peaceful life. Most of our institutions and law enforcement efforts are necessary and intended to deter and restrain the impulses and desires of the amoral and selfish 5%.
And all the white settlers were all angels.😂
@@katie195 several recorded instances
These terms were generous 😂😂😂😂